29th Annual Meeting and National Symposium
Gateways of Fashion: Influence of Global Trading
June 11-15, 2003
Charleston, South Carolina
Abstracts edited by
Irene Romaniw, Parks Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Thursday Morning, June 12: Juried Papers
Paris in San Francisco: Marketing European Style from California
Sheryl Birkner, Independent Researcher
Fact, Fantasy and Folly: Hollywood Portrays the American Department Store
Sheryl Farnan Leipzig, Iowa State University
Javanese Influence in American Fashion in the Early 20th Century
Abby Lillethun, University of Rhode Island
Trajectories of Culture and Trade: Italian Coral Beads in a Global Market Place
Susan J. Torntore, Illinois State University
Thursday Afternoon, June 12: Concurrent Sessions
Fundraising for Small Profit Organizations
Bill Mott, President and Founder, Heritage Funding Associates
Hands-On Web Design for Costume Related Sites, 2 Parts
Chairs: Margot Ayer and Charlotte Hall Hamilton
Publishing 101 for the Field, 2 Parts
Chair: Sally Queen
Preserving Our Past, 2 Parts
Chair: Janet Hasson
Involving Children in Historic Programming
Chair: Irene Romaniw
Costume Information and Education/ Spreading the Word
Chairs: Phyllis Specht and Edward Maeder
Friday Morning, June 13: Juried Papers
Imaginary Dress? Invented Drapery? Timeless Costume? Studio Props? Try
Turkish
Patricia C. Warner, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Charlotte Jirousek, Cornell University
Constructing an Imported Appearance in the Connecticut River Valley: The 1742
Wedding Gown of Elizabeth Pitkin Porter
David E. Lazaro, Historic Deerfield, Inc
Foreign Goods, Cotton and Wool: The Importation of Textiles and Garments into
New England, 1700-1800
Edward F. Maeder, Historic Deerfield, Inc
Smuggling Textiles in 18th Century England
Susan North, Victoria and Albert Museum
China Trade Textiles and The Rhode Island Wardrobe
Madelyn Shaw, Rhode Island School of Design
Scare Buying and Other Wartime Phenomena: U.S. Women’s Fashion 19411946
Pamela Soohoo, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science
From Finland With Love: Design Research and the Marimekko Phenomenon in
America
Susan Ward, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Saturday Morning, June 14: Juried Papers
The Credibility of Costume Figures in Some of the Murals in the Dunhuang
Caves
Charlotte Jirousek with
Bao Mingxin, first author, Dong Hua University
Ning Fangjun, second author, Cornell University
Back to the Knitting Needle: Yarn Manufacturers, Retailers and the Image of
Knitting in America, 1935-1955
Susan M. Strawn, Iowa State University
The Empress’s New Clothes: Multi-Nationalism in the Court of Empress
Elizabeth of Russia (1709-1762)
Elizabeth Walton, National Museum of the American Indian ...............................
Saturday Afternoon, June 14: Poster Session
From Desert to Diaspora: A History of Global Influences on Somali Dress
Heather Marie Akou, University of Minnesota
Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses’ Caps
Christina Bates, Canadian Museum of Civilization
Attire for Motoring: Dusters and Beyond
Shelly Foote, Smithsonian Institute
Crochet Work of German-American Women in Missouri: Cross Cultural Artifacts
as Symbols of Acculturation
Joyce Starr Johnson, Fontbonne University
Laurel E. Wilson, University of Missouri, Columbia
What Does Dress Tell Us About Culture?
Linda B. Reilly, Montclair State University
Les Fichus Madras: French Women’s Headwraps of the 1810s
Ann B. Wass, Riversdale House Museum
Adaptation of Cross-Cultural Costume Influences by Rodeo Cowgirls, 1920-1947
Jennifer E. Nielsen, National Cowgirl Museum
Linking the Past and Future: Students Develop an Online Historic Costume
Exhibit
Julianne Trautmann, Illinois State University
Catherine R. Boyd, Mississippi State University
Using a Costume Collection as a Tool for Fundraising
Monica Phillippe McMurry, Stephens College
Defiance, Disillusionment, Decadence: An Exhibit of Dress and Culture of the
1960s, 70s and 80s
Imagery from the “Queen Anne” Hobye Gown
Brenda Buller Focht, Riverside Municipal Museum
Lynn Voorhees, Riverside Municipal Museum
Teresa Woodard, Riverside Municipal Museum
Dayna Minter, University of California, Riverside
The High Opinion You Have of My Taste: The Salem Towne Family Sets the
Style in Worcester County
Aimee E. Newell, Old Sturbridge Village
From Farm Girl to Flapper: 1920s in Allen County, Ohio
M. Lynn Barnes, Bluffton College
Saturday Afternoon, July 14: Juried Papers
Coping With Wartime in the U.S. Bra Business, 1939-1946
Jane Farrell-Beck, Iowa State University
Pola Stout and the American Design Movement: 1941-1952
Clare M. Sauro, The Museum at FIT
Trading Talent: The Multi-Cultural Influence of Non-French Designers in the
French Haute Couture
Jo Ann C. Stabb, University of California, Davis
Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button
Gene Annette Burger, STEPS in Time Bookstore and Coffeehouse
New Immigrants, New Cities, New Clothes: Men’s Ready-Wear Manufacturers in
America, 1830-1870
Phyllis Dillon, Yevshiva University Museum
Clothing and the Perception of Ethnicity: Californios in Southern California
Photographs 1850-1870
Carol A. Bowdoin Gil, California State University, Long Beach